The Imperial capital of the Quimbrand Empire, Gi-Quimbrand, was two times smaller than the King Pawnsonian capital.

While Gi-Pohnsonia is a cluttered king's capital swallowing all sorts of things, it can be said that Gi-Quinn Brand is a well organized city.

These two countries, basic aristocratic systems, bureaucracy or statutes, are very similar, but overall smaller due to the slower establishment of the Empire of Quimbrand, and vice versa, well organized. I studied Pawnsonia during the founding of the country, so I wonder what it is.

"You haven't heard from Unken?

"Your Majesty, it's not like that. It hasn't been a long time since I invited Lord Unken. Lord Unken's loyalty is real. You will return with good news."

"... Having said that, isn't it true that that 'sword saint' worked a wolf and our army was a chisel? Don't you want to know why Pawnsonia withdrew when it was a victory"

The large conference room was lit by fire even though it was late at night. There are only four of them there.

One is the Chancellor, head of the Empire's internal affairs.

One is a military secretary who presides over the imperial military but is not a samurai in person.

One of them is the chief of intelligence.

And —— it is Emperor Quimbrand who rules this country, sitting on the gold-leafed, most expensive chair.

"The rest of the questions will be natural."

He's not even 150 cm tall and the crown he put on his head even looks huge to disproportionate. But this doesn't mean the emperor is "young". He was 72 years old. But his face was young enough to say that he was a college student or had just become a member of society.

Young and also short for age depends, for one thing, on the fact that the emperor is a race called the Mannorm.

This fact is not very widespread. Because -- the Balzad, called the "evil emperor" and still abhorred by nations as well as by their own people, was a man-norm.

The current emperor Kagli-Gi-Quinn brand was also a man-norme.

"Sire, I know how you feel... intelligence, what do you think?

"Ha. Although my contact with Lord Unken has been successful, I don't know what to do after that."

"I don't know. Isn't that troublesome, you don't"

When the prime minister speaks to the secretary, the military secretary becomes obsessed. It was the usual harassment by the military secretary who wanted to attract the intelligence department under his internal affairs to the military.

"Ha. Lord Unken is a legendary man also known as' Misty Assassin ',' A Breeze Without Footsteps'. We can't capture it."

"I know that. Isn't it your job to follow that? I suppose you've lost your heart because you belong in internal affairs, Your Majesty?

"That's okay, sir. It is the rest of the decision that you have come out here to the heirloom's treasure knife, Lord Unken. Anything along the way. If information is brought..."

"Ha..."

"Your Grace is very generous."

The Intelligence Department is in place, and the Chief Military Officer rubs it in plain sight.

(... all I can think about is expanding my powers in this emergency —— stupid man)

The prime minister scorns the military secretary.

By the way, the prime minister, the secretary, the military secretary, all of them, the race was human.

(But really, was it a meaningful request? Mannorm that a man named Unken is over 200 years old...... a katana that His Majesty relied on him when he was younger and took up the former emperor who is your father)

What the Chancellor knows is that at the time 50 years ago, the Empire of Quimbrand was "doomed whole". The people were exhausted by heavy taxes after heavy taxes, and young people were being driven out as soldiers. But Emperor Balzad did not stop the march.

They were likely to succumb to the kingdom of Pawnsonia, but that's why they do it afterwards? Pawnsonia is also exhausted in the defensive battle. Nor does the power of the country recover rapidly where it is occupied.

At that time, the Quinn brand will be over if multiple countries clustered together in the anti-Quinn brand attack us. There are fusi that the other nations did not help the kingdom of Pawnsonia.

(In the end it was resolved within the Mannorm race... His Majesty Cagley, aged 20 or there, asked Lord Unken, who butchered the former emperor brilliantly)

This information is top secret. All I know on this occasion are two prime ministers and an emperor. The secretary and the military secretary only recognized Unken as a "relative of the emperor, a man of great excellence in reconnaissance skills".

Killing my father and taking his throne lacks legitimacy as emperor - due to the views of constitutional scholars. So Balzad's death is considered "morbid death". In fact, a good number of domestic nobles should have found out about the assassination, but the culprits are considered both Pawnsonian and third countries.

Kagley then took office as emperor and stopped the war. Pawnsonia and I signed a 30-year inviolability pact to restore national power.

Thirty years is just a little further into the future for a man-nome who lives much longer than a human being. If Pawnsonia still had resentment in 30 years, it would invade the other way around, but in those days, it was the decision that Quinn Brand would have an attitude in place again.

The only miscalculation is that a monster wearing the skin of someone named "Kensei" or something like that served in the Kingdom of Pawnsonia.

(... His Majesty has ruled this country very well. More importantly, I was an emperor before I could fully work as a bureaucrat. This judgment, Your Majesty, is just a wish. I'm sure it will work......)

The Chancellor decided to fully support Kagley, who immediately decided to "rely on Unken" for the mystery of Pawnsonian withdrawal.

Orders the Secretary of Intelligence to make the search for Unken a top priority and alerts the Military Secretary not to make any extra imitations.

"You mean at the behest of a distant child, you killed that father, the Emperor? And now the child is the emperor..."

Hikaru, who heard the whole story, told him to snap. Unken nods but supplements.

"Almost no one knows this truth. If the truth spreads, the nobles will revolt greatly."

"Phew."

"Is that all you think?

Well, it's none of my business.

To be honest, Hikaru said, Unken sighed deeply.

"You really haven't changed. We're not talking about the center of a country."

"What does that have to do with my life?

"It's got something to do with it."

"Why?"

"Why do you think I told you such important confidentiality? It's more than what I've heard."

"... no, no, there isn't. I just want to go home. Before winter begins."

Hikaru says. I really want to go home soon. I was also concerned about what was happening to the founding ceremony of the Union.

"Mostly, why would you do that? You lived there in Pond, didn't you? If your relatives call you, whee, do you risk your life?

"... that's what a man-norme is all about. Sweet in you, tough in you, everything turns around in you. I wanted to get out of there... but I can't get out of the blood."

"Blood, hey..."

Hikaru thinks.

Now I have Roland's flesh, with a different soul in it. But with his different soul, he also avenged Roland. Is that what the flesh dragged me to do?

(No. It was my will that killed Count Morgustadt. Blood, what a fuzzy thing)

On the other hand, though, I also thought that a long-lived species, like the mangnome, might have some kind of intense connection that humans can't imagine.

"... you want me to do something?

"Well, are you willing to help? Not surprisingly. I thought you were going home 90% of the time."

"Even I am willing to pay back some of my debts. It's just not gonna be long."

"Come on, I taught you to dismantle. You owe me. Isn't what you were saying different?

"Can I go home?

"I'm just kidding. You're a weird guy to make -- you know the old saying," stock guard. "

That was a word Hikaru used as a convenience. It was surprising that Unken knew, and suggested that there were other reincarnators in Hikaru —— well, that question was gone because there was an unmistakable reincarnator named Celica of the Oriental Four Stars.

"What do you want me to do?

"I want you to deliver the letter"

"Letter?"

"To His Majesty Cagley, the Imperial Capital of Quimbrand, Gi-Quimbrand."

"... why don't you let your men do it?

"The Imperial Intelligence Department is too low a level. Besides, I can't show you a letter from a weasel other than your majesty. Intelligence may have a monopoly on information."

Hikaru thinks. There will be quite a distance to Gi-Quinn Brand. I have no problem crossing the border or sneaking into the Imperial Castle though.

"Don't bother me. How long is this gonna take? I told you I wanted to go home before winter."

"I don't know where your house is."

"Forestia Union"

"You know what? I'll teach you a lot more honestly. Right —— Forestia. It's unstable over there, too, but at least it might be better than kingdoms and empires. If things go well, we'll have enough to go home before winter does."

"... ok. Then give me a letter."

I'm sorry.

"Damn, the demolition class got a lot more expensive"

Kuck, and laughing, Unken takes the paper out of his nostalgia and writes it down sarcastically.

For Hikaru, such as the dispute between the Empire and the Kingdom was something that genuinely didn't matter. Hikaru stuck with Alice to get here because she was just interested in what sort of soulboard configuration Alice's master was. Well, I realized on the way that it was Unken, so I switched to the interest that Unken wanted to know what he was doing here.

Yet why take on such a troublesome use?

(Jii...... you're willing to die)

I don't know what's written in Unken's letter. But Hikaru was telling me that Unken was willing not to come back alive.

Even though it's a long life, I don't know if it's just because I know that the old days aren't that long, or because there's something to entrust to the emperor, or because it's a clan problem —— Hikaru doesn't know. Guess what?

We're going to assassinate the king of Pawnsonia.

Within my own country, but also with the guide of the next emperor. Wake up differently than assassinating Emperor Balzard. He snuck into a royal castle he didn't know about and hit the king in the act. It would be natural to be prepared to die.

Even if he dies, Unken's identity only comes out as "Pond's Adventurer Guildmaster". I've been quitting Guildmaster later so I don't have any trouble with it, I guess.

(... Should I tell you that the Chivalry Chiefs are trying to take on the princess?

That's what I came up with, but Hikaru shook his head inside. So what is it? Instead, Unken could happily go and kill the king. It is far more sooo much better for a king to die in an assassination than for a coup d 'état, and for a Knights leader to support the princess at the stage of selecting the next king.

Things are no longer in Hikaru's hands.

"Now, all right"

I was given a seal. It is pasted and cannot be found inside. Hikaru turns the seal into a bag in his hand.

"... I asked you to"

"Oh."

The wrinkles engraved on Unken's face are deep. He looks like a tough old man.

But at this time —— I was just laughing.

"It's Hikaru. Whether you want it or not, with as much talent as you, the world won't let you go. Yes, it's heartbreaking."

"... Okay, I get it"

Without disputing or denying it, Hikaru just took it. It felt like a final farewell from Unken to myself.

Unken disappeared. Hikaru also disappeared again. There was no goodbye greeting.